Every boomer I know owns a home and has significantly more liquidity than I do. Maybe your story is different, but to say they are unequivocally not in a class above anyone is false.
Perhaps you aren’t considering enough classes. There are more than 2.
No you see, because it isnt a “new” war, because they wanted to do it forever. John McCain was running when “bomb bomb bomb… Bomb, bomb Iran” trended.
So it’s all old war. They just hadn’t acted on it yet.
Totally not a new war. /s
Irn Bru is fantastic. Gather it at all costs.
Fun fact: it outsold Coca Cola for a few years in its native Scotland. Unfortunately changes to the sugar tax in the UK, and the changes both companies made to their products as a result, mean that Coke does now outsell it.
At some point we’ll have to shift focus from boomers hoarding money (which they are, absolutely) to the fact thay many people reaching retirement age in 20-25 years will have no plan, no safety net, and no options because of systemic changes in industry and government. These systemic changes were only ever considered for a few years out.
I don’t think there are any good solutions for the longer term issues.
I’m not disagreeing, but it is worthwhile to point out that the groups can converge.
It may be a class war, but when all the boomers you know are a class above you, it can be both.
But of course, because the average MAGA has a memory that lasts about a week.
At this point they don’t even remember the Epstein Files. They don’t remember “they’re eating the dogs”. They definitely don’t remember “no new wars”.
“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
Privatize profits, socialize losses.
This is the law of the land.
“Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”
Because no one could possibly protest against raw patriotism!!*
The playbook hasn’t changed. But now they’re showing their work and still missing the point.
Most of them weren’t serious about it. They spent 8 years bitching that extra amount because the President was black.
Sigh. None of this is surprising in the least. The cost of AI infrastructure and compute (coupled with the complexity of the chain) makes it prohibitively expensive.
It only has appeared cheap because of investor money flowing like Niagara on the off-chance that it could be made cheap enough to be profitable after getting everyone addicted to using it. I really don’t think it’s there, and it’s definitely not cheap enough to continue flying for free much longer.
Aha, that makes sense. Thanks.
Indeed, which is why it is generally classified as an analytic language (as opposed to e.g. fusional). It is sometimes misclassified as an isolating language, which it really isn’t, since Mandarin does have compounds. It is worth noting, though, that no natural language fits perfectly into the morphological prototypes.
That said, fewer complexities in one part of a grammar tend to even out in others. In fact, there is some tendency of tonal languages to lean isolating or analytic exactly because the ratio of morphemes-to-word is lower (often 1-to-1); given that syllables can only be so complex (a limitation of anatomy), analytic languages will tend to have more homophones than non-analytic ones, and thus the tone tends to be required to maintain the same information density. To look at it another way, tone is a method for distinguishing what are otherwise homophones.
Now, how any of that relates to whales… well, it very likely doesn’t.
10 x 9 x 8… etc. yields 1,814,400 possible combinations of no repeats, right? I’m confused what the “whole” is if this is expressed as a percent.
Have to admit, I agree. I know there is a lot of sensationalism out there, but there are serious reasons to take issue with Boeing’s output, especially newer models.
It’s not like I’m refusing to fly on Boeing and I think that’s generally an overreaction… but there is a slight, very slight relief when I see my flight is scheduled with an Airbus.
Holy shit.
This thing collapsed at the gate, before passengers were on board.
A collapse on takeoff or landing could have killed everyone on board.
Thanks for sharing the actual research.
I’m curious to dive into this (pun intended). It sounds like a bit of a stretch to analogize these whale signals to Mandarin or any other human language simply because of this:
However, our analogy has a limit: while in human languages, different tones can be associated with different meanings, the meanings conveyed by sperm whale codas have not been established.
The jump is, though they may be referring to the whale sounds as “tones”, in human languages “tone” and “pitch” are two distinct concepts which share a modality. The former has to do with meaning, while the latter has to do with things that are extrasentential or even extralinguistic. Consider the rising pitch at the end of a question in English: this nudges the listener into thinking they heard a question, but it doesn’t carry meaning in the lexical sense, which makes it pitch and not tone (cf. the various books like e.g. the Cambridge series on Pitch vs. Tone, even though there are common terms like “intonation” which belie the scientific terms).
If there is no evidence of a mapping between meaning and pitch in whales (as the above quote suggests) then it really isn’t linguistic “tone”, even if it is musical tone or some other type. It’s certainly a sound with some sonorant quality, minimally pitch.
Could all be entirely wrong. As I mentioned, I haven’t yet read the paper fully.
Seen this headline with slightly different details about 100 times since the early 2000s.
News media in a country with a two-party system: dangling a carrot in the right spot to constantly keep the people in charge in the butter zone.
Well yeah, doing actual research or understanding a topic would cut into his golf time
“Just two more weeks, bro.”